Our technologies have built shiny devices that makes our lives convenient and keeps us entertained. But it has failed to give us good health, engaging education, and a joyful life.
To break free from materialism, we must leap in faith, hoping that we can encounter the truth.
Because we are unable to define what matter is, a materialist explanation of consciousness is untenable.
Can we trust machines to have a hand in our connection to the divine?
For Dan Faggella, post-human intelligence will only lead to super-competition, which in turn, leads to human extinction.
The Copernican Principle made us believe that our universe, our earth is replaceable. But modern scientific developments ate showing us otherwise.
As DeepMind goes deeper into the creation of an artificial general intelligence (AGI), it attempts to address the alignment problem. Will Iason Gabriel’s new work finally resolve it?
SafeLife hopes to address unintended consequences of AI systems, but Matt Beane says that it could lead to even more complex unintended consequences.
In 1998, two thinkers made a bet: Christof Koch bet a case of fine wine, saying that by 2023 someone would discover a signature for consciousness. But David Chalmers disagreed. How are the new findings in consciousness studies supporting or disproving the two positions?
It has been seven years since transhumanist George Dvorsky wrote this landmark article on mind uploading, but despite the improvements in science and technology, his points remain true as ever.